Re: Compilation ideas

On Dec 10, 2:22 pm, poisoned rose
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frank megaweege <wvhillrun...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm only a lurker here, but I'll pop up to say I agree that, in
general, mp3's are significantly inferior to what you can buy on cd.
That wouldn't be a problem except that they are being sold for roughly
the same price as cd's.

That's not really true, unless either the CD has a lot of tracks or
the CD is selling down at $11-$12. A 12-track CD selling for $16.98?
More expensive.


I usually try to get cd's under $15. So $1 per track is roughly the
same.

Also, you ignore the obvious, attractive factor of choice: being
able to pick out the "good" songs and skip the rest. Spending $2 on
the two songs you like is a lot cheaper than buying a CD.

I've never been interested in buying single songs. I tend to like
particular musicians/song writers, not just individual songs.


The record companies expect people to pay $1 each for crappy mp3's.
This is the alternative to downloading mp3's (often better quality
than the authorized versions) for free? The industry is dominated by
blind greedy pigs who apparently never learn from thier mistakes.

Typical Usenet "I have all the answers which the industry doesn't"
overconfidence.

I'm not sure if I have any answers, but I'm positive that the industry
does not. Another thing I'm positive about is that I won't pay
anything close to cd prices for mp3's.


Free is always going to be more coveted than not-free, no matter how
low the price is. What price would you believe is fair? And
incidentally, Amazon is now selling plenty of mp3s for 89 cents.

..89 is still way too much.

I believe mp3's are worth very little, almost worthless to the
consumer but useful to the artists and distributors as promotional
tools. Downloading mp3's with abandon allows me to sort through the
garbage to find what I really like.

If I have to throw out a price I'd say $.05/each. That's in the same
ballpark that one would be paying per song for a satellite radio
subscription.
.

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